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Friday, May 6, 2016

In Europe, Jew-hatred trumps national security

It has been less than two months since Islamic
terrorists successfully targeted the Brussels airport and the Maelbeek
metro station, killing 32 people and wounding many more. And it has been
only half a year since the Paris attacks, in which Islamic terrorists
killed 130 people and wounded nearly 400. These were groundbreaking,
shocking events in the history of Islamic terrorism on European soil, so
one would naturally assume that Israel and Jews in general, who make up
such a marginal demographic group, constituting less than half a
percent of the population of the EU, would be the last thing on European
politicians’ minds. Another enormous immigration crisis looms, as
800,000 migrants, according to French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le
Drian, are currently in Libyan territory waiting to cross the
Mediterranean Sea. This means that Europe will most likely be facing
even more chaos than it did last summer.

However, European politicians, instead of
busying themselves with protecting their citizens from future terrorist
attacks — as well as preventing another chaotic summer of migration
chaos — incredibly find time to get mired in sordid squabbles about
insane ideas of transferring Israeli Jews to the United States and
claiming Hitler was a Zionist, as we saw in the UK, or composing
elaborate peace conference initiatives to solve the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, as we saw in France. If I were a European citizen, I would
wonder why my government was occupying itself with these issues, which
have no vital meaning to any Europeans, at a time when Europe is facing
unprecedented security threats.

In other parts of the UK, Jews are not faring
any better. Almost 20 percent of Jews in Scotland have said that they
have been victims of hate crimes. In Glasgow, home to the majority of
Scottish Jews, more Jews are leaving or fearing to identify as Jews in a
city, which has become increasingly hostile, something that culminated
in 2014, when the Glasgow City Council decided to fly the Palestinian
flag in what it said was a show of solidarity with the people of Gaza.

Just as elsewhere in Europe, these
developments are more likely than not to result in an even greater
exodus of Jews from the European continent. Israel will be the richer
for that and Europe the poorer. This leaves the Europeans with nowhere
to escape from their irresponsible politicians. But they should ask why
Israel and the Jews continue to be an almost clinical obsession to the
point where Jew-hatred trumps national security. It would be very
interesting to hear the answer.